Solution Owner Multi-platform Sharepoint

Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to fit every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job Description

Position Purpose/Objective (in broad terms describe what the job does and the expected end results)

Global IT is on a strategic journey to modernize Microsoft 365 collaboration capabilities, delivering secure, scalable and user-friendly SharePoint Online services across all global sites.

The Technical Consultant – SharePoint Online sits within the IT – Core Business Solutions team and serves as the primary technical authority for SharePoint Online, modern SharePoint architecture and the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This role is responsible for designing, developing, migrating and optimizing SharePoint Online solutions, including the modernization and migration of classic SharePoint sites to the SharePoint Online modern experience.

Reporting to the ITDP/Solution Architect, this role combines deep Microsoft 365 engineering expertise with automation and integration skills across Power Automate, PowerShell and Azure cloud services. The consultant leads technical delivery, guides best-practice adoption, supports governance and compliance, and ensures the platform remains secure, maintainable and future-ready in alignment with digital transformation roadmap.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES (list KEY activities, expected results and the ways results are measured)

• Take ownership of the functional and technical solutions in the designated Microsoft 365 / SharePoint domain.
• Review and manage changes and daily operations delivered by external partners, ensuring quality, maintainability and adherence to standards.
• Translate business requirements into clear SharePoint Online functional and technical designs, including information architecture, security model, automation and integration patterns.
  
  

Technical Ownership & Governance

• Act as the primary technical SME for SharePoint Online, modern sites, communication sites, team sites, hub sites, lists, libraries, content types and metadata models.
• Define and maintain SharePoint Online governance covering site lifecycle, ownership, permissions, external sharing, naming standards, information protection, retention and operational support handover.
• Establish best-practice design principles for SharePoint Online solutions, covering usability, accessibility, searchability, performance, security, maintainability and supportability.
• Provide technical guidance to business stakeholders, IT Business Partners, Solution Architects, AMS teams and external delivery partners.
  
  

Design, Build, Migration & Automation

• Design, develop and support modern SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions using the latest supported SPFx patterns, including web parts, extensions and reusable components aligned to development standards.
• Lead the migration and modernization of classic SharePoint sites to SharePoint Online, including assessment, remediation, migration planning, modern site design, validation and post-migration stabilization.
• Develop and maintain Power Automate cloud flows for approvals, notifications, document lifecycle automation and business process orchestration, replacing legacy workflows where applicable.
• Use PowerShell and PnP PowerShell for SharePoint Online administration, provisioning, permissions reporting, bulk updates, migration support and operational automation.
• Design and implement integrations with Microsoft platform services including Azure cloud services, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Teams and other enterprise applications where required.
• Define reusable templates, provisioning patterns, runbooks and technical standards for secure and scalable SharePoint Online delivery.
• Participate in solution reviews, change reviews, testing, deployment and hypercare for SharePoint Online enhancements and migration releases.
• Respond to security, compliance and audit observations by remediating configuration gaps and providing evidence for implemented controls.
  
  

Delivery & Stakeholder Management

• Engage with business stakeholders to refine requirements and convert them into practical Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Online solutions.
• Coordinate with AMS vendors and third-party partners to ensure operational continuity, release coordination, incident/problem resolution and knowledge transfer.
• Support escalations and complex issue resolution related to SharePoint Online, Power Automate, PowerShell automation, Azure integrations and migration defects.
  
  

Team & Capability

• Ensure proper documentation, configuration records, solution design documents and runbooks are maintained for the SharePoint Online platform.
• Promote best practices, knowledge sharing, reuse of standard components and continuous improvement across Microsoft 365 collaboration services.
  
  

About Us

We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.